We need your help to make essential renovations

The UW Rome Center has served generations of students, offering some of their most valuable and personally transformative UW experiences. Experiencing Rome with Palazzo Pio as a home-away-from-home is a unique and life-changing opportunity for students. Critical improvements to classrooms and learning spaces will ensure that faculty may continue to create and students may continue to experience innovative and transformational global teaching and research in the future.

To continue our work, the UW Rome Center urgently needs essential renovations and upgrades to the historic palazzo. We have already begun this work, and with your support, we can complete the project by 2020 and host significantly more students in the coming years.

Additional scholarships for students will improve access for the next – and increasingly diverse – generation of UW students to the unparalleled opportunities for global learning available at the UW Rome Center.

With your support of scholarships and critical infrastructure investments, the UW Rome Center will be hosting a projected 500 students per year by 2023.

A home-base in Rome

The first time Annabel Cholico, ’08, stepped off of a plane, she felt like she was in an Italian movie. It was 2007, and Annabel, a junior Law, Societies & Justice major, was on her way to the UW Rome Center for a trip that would change her outlook on learning and life.

“I remember as we were driving down the cobblestone roads [from the airport] I would turn back just to see the road behind me. Everything about it fascinated me,” she says. “Rome I had only seen and heard of in the movies, in books, it wasn’t something that I thought that I would be able to experience. It just felt like I was a character in books that I had read.”

Having a UW home base in Rome’s Campo de' Fiori was very meaningful to Annabel’s experience. “The Rome Center and the place where students live has a bigger impact on them because they’re placed in this plaza where they can see life happening before them.”